SEOUL: On the news that war started in the Middle East on Thursday, stocks soared and the nation's currency strengthened. Another welcome development for the Korean economy was that yields to maturity dropped in the bond market.
These initial reactions of the financial markets were based on the belief that the US military campaign against Iraq would come to a speedy end.
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